ETAR 11-11-2011

[K2G]

Noted between 13.00 - 15.00

C-40C
54613 73AS

C-130J-30
63171 317AG

C-17A
88198,23292,33114,77182,55139,88196,66164,66166,77173,88194,21112

C-5
60027,70032,60013

KC-135R
37997 22ARW

[AMC]

Hi, C-5B 87-0032 depart yesterday at 20:30 to the States. C-5 60027? We have only 86-0026 and 86-0013 on the deck!
KC-135 63-7997 also depart yesteday (10.11.11) to the States! 63-8879 92ndARW is on the deck and arrived today 11.11.11 back from
Al Udeid!

[K2G]

Yes, you are richt only two C-5's today. C-5M 60013 and C-5B 60026. Sorry
Any arrivals after 15.00 ? Because I am going home tomorrow morning.. (if there is something new, I have a quick look).

[AMC]

02-1112 C-17A depart, 03-3114 depart, 08-8198 C-17A depart and two RS Herks came in. And an Evergreen B.747. That´s it.
Very Quiet!!!

[Banter]

Later tonight RCH948 C130H 74-1664 ETA2115L

Brgds
Banter

[luit0029]

Warning: never, never go to ETAR on 11-11 of any year. 11-11 is clearly a holiday. Called "veteranendag". So they told me (Germans working on the base). Only 2 civiel planes came in. The first time in my life I did not see at Ramstein a single C 17 come in. It is was a very long and boring day!

[Eric van Lisdonk]

Strange, that day 1x C-5 came in and 4x C-17's arrived and one nice C-40, 2x nice Herky bird and a KC-135 all land. So it was not so bad after all.

Cheers,
Eric

[luit0029]

I was 11/11 around the airbase from 09.00 till 16.45 (in front of runway). Not one minute away. Not sleeping. I did not see one of the birds you mention come in during day time. Whatever happens when it is dark, only scanner freeks know. When I arrived 11/11 at 09.00 the C 40 + 1 nice Herky (C130J) was already on deck. Someone told me they arrived shortly after midnight. I am only happy if I can make pictures. The observation alone is not enough. I visit Ramstein since 1974. For me it was a all time low event. A good thing there is a explanation

Cheers,

Hans

[Eric van Lisdonk]

I was 11/11 around the airbase from 09.00 till 16.45 (in front of runway). Not one minute away. Not sleeping. I did not see one of the birds you mention come in during day time. Whatever happens when it is dark, only scanner freeks know. When I arrived 11/11 at 09.00 the C 40 + 1 nice Herky (C130J) was already on deck. Someone told me they arrived shortly after midnight. I am only happy if I can make pictures. The observation alone is not enough. I visit Ramstein since 1974. For me it was a all time low event. A good thing there is a explanation

Cheers,

Hans

Yes you are correct. Between your arrival and departure time almost nothing was arriving. All mine mentioned a/c arrived before or after the time that you were there.
It's not good for photographers when the base is 24hours open for traffic. Most of the traffic is arriving shortly after 06h00.

Greetz,
Eric

[Oscar01]

I can fully understand Hans opinion: all those numbers (even on 11th it was very quiet) are nice, but if they only fly in the dark, it's boring boring and boring again during day time.... But this is common practice in the last few month (with I know, some exceptional good days)......

Oz

Ps: Hans, be aware, next week is slow again second half of the week, because of Thanksgiving (Thursday).....

[K-9]

With the Ops tempo slowly going down ... I guess we can't expect activity to increase...

@ Oscar01 thanks for the info for next week !